{"id":18075,"date":"2025-09-02T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18075"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:04:05","slug":"danish-artists-a-peeling-take-on-gender-sells-for-12869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18075","title":{"rendered":"Danish artist\u2019s a-peeling take on gender sells for $12,869"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Banana artwork by Danish artist Thyra Hilden, resembling a vulva, was sold for $12,869 at the Enter Art Fair in Copenhagen, it emerged on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, deliberately priced at a fraction of its so-called male counterpart \u2014 Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s $120,000 \u201cComedian\u201d banana\u00a0\u2014\u00a0has raised not just eyebrows, but has prompted\u00a0conversation about gender equality in the art world.<\/p>\n<p>Cattelan&#8217;s banana \u2014 taped to a wall \u2014 fetched $120,000 at Art Basel in 2019, and later earned a jaw-dropping $6.24 million at Sotheby\u2019s in 2024. In a playful twist, Hilden set the price of her artwork at 10% of Cattelan\u2019s, with hopes to challenge the norm.<\/p>\n<p>Read: &#8216;Naruto&#8217; joins &#8216;How to Train Your Dragon&#8217; in new collaboration artwork by Masashi Kishimoto<\/p>\n<p>Anders Andersen, who purchased the piece, has plans to replace the banana daily, adding his own twist to this cheeky commentary on art, value, and gender. &#8220;The price might sound ridiculous, but I hope the real value will come from what the female artist wishes to express through the work,\u201d Andersen said.<\/p>\n<p>The Enter Art Fair, Scandinavia\u2019s largest international art event, continues to spark these tasty discussions on the value of art, with a side of humor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banana artwork by Danish artist Thyra Hilden, resembling a vulva, was sold for $12,869 at the Enter Art Fair in Copenhagen, it emerged on Tuesday. The piece, deliberately priced at a fraction of its so-called male counterpart \u2014 Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s $120,000 \u201cComedian\u201d banana\u00a0\u2014\u00a0has raised not just eyebrows, but has prompted\u00a0conversation about gender equality in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}